{"id":108965,"date":"2020-06-21T05:43:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T12:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/teslas-controversial-vision-based-full-self-driving-approach-is-finally-paying-off"},"modified":"2020-06-21T05:43:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T12:43:32","slug":"teslas-controversial-vision-based-full-self-driving-approach-is-finally-paying-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/teslas-controversial-vision-based-full-self-driving-approach-is-finally-paying-off","title":{"rendered":"Tesla\u2019s controversial vision-based full self-driving approach is finally paying off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/teslas-controversial-vision-based-full-self-driving-approach-is-finally-paying-off.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like many things about Elon Musk, Tesla\u2019s approach to achieving autonomous driving is polarizing. Bucking the map-based trend set by industry veterans such as Waymo, Tesla opted to dedicate its resources in pursuing a vision-based approach to achieve full self-driving instead. This involves a lot of hard, tedious work on Tesla\u2019s part, but today, there are indications that the company\u2019s controversial strategy is finally paying off.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g2R2T631x7k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a recent talk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g2R2T631x7k&t=277s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tesla AI Director Andrej Karpathy<\/a> discussed the key differences between the map-based approach of Waymo and Tesla\u2019s camera-based strategy. According to Karpathy, Waymo\u2019s use of pre-mapped data and LiDAR make scaling difficult, since vehicles\u2019 autonomous capabilities are practically tied to a geofenced area. Tesla\u2019s vision-based approach, which uses cameras and artificial intelligence, is not. This means that Autopilot and FSD improvements can be rolled out to the fleet, and they would function anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>This rather ambitious plan for Tesla\u2019s full self-driving system has caught a lot of skepticism in the past, with critics pointing out that map-based FSD is the way to go. Tesla, in response, dug its heels in and doubled down on its vision-based initiative. This, in a way, resulted in Autopilot improvements and the rollout of FSD features taking a lot of time, particularly since training the neural networks, which recognize objects and driving behavior on the road, requires massive amounts of real-world data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many things about Elon Musk, Tesla\u2019s approach to achieving autonomous driving is polarizing. Bucking the map-based trend set by industry veterans such as Waymo, Tesla opted to dedicate its resources in pursuing a vision-based approach to achieve full self-driving instead. This involves a lot of hard, tedious work on Tesla\u2019s part, but today, there [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}